Dr. NIKOLAI STELMAKH

         e-mail: nstelmakh@comcast.net

Fully operational languages: Russian, French, English

 

Senior Physicist and Electrical Engineer with over 20 years of experience in semiconductor lasers and passive

light-wave circuit (PLC) technology. Laser emphasis on high power CW and ultra-short pulse generation.

 Broad knowledge of pulse propagation, resonators, defect recombination, fast photo-detectors, photon statistic

 in pulsed diode lasers. Holder of 5 patents, author of over 100 technical papers, and the recipient

numerous technical awards including the Blondel’s Medal for Electrical Engineering Excellence.

 

  University of Texas Arlington                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Visiting Associate Professor                                                                                                                  Jan 2003 –           

 

Course for Undergraduate students Senior Level: “Optical Design Methods”

 

  Applied WDM, Inc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Vice President of Technology                                                                                                       2000 – June 2002          

Lead both strategy and the day-to-day development of the company’s product and technology portfolio. Managed 3 PhD,

7 engineers and 5 technicians. Established and drove the exclusive strategic foundry relationship with X-FAB,

 Applied WDM’s technology partner.

  Accomplishments

·                     Produced Best-in-Class 40 Channel 50 GHz and 100 GHz AWG Mux / DeMux Performance

·                     Co-invented Athermal AWG Design

·                     Co-invented Broad Area Laser Transformer PLC for High Power Pump Laser Applications

·                     Developed Custom AWG Design/Mask Layout System for Folded and Unfolded AWGs

·                     Adapted Oxidation, PECVD Deposition, Anneal, and CMP process step to achieve
birefringence-free optical waveguides

 

  CNRS’s Institut d’Électronique Fondamentale                                                                                                                            

Director of Research                                                                                                                                      2000-          

 

·                     Supervisor of research group on diode lasers; 2 staff members and researchers
and 4 Ph.D. students

·                     Leader of RNRT project on development of saturable mirrors for 1.55µm noise filtering
in high bit rate telecommunication lines

·                     Statistic study of a pulsed light emitted from diode laser in mode-locking regime (collaboration with

·                     nstitut d’Optique)

·                     Direct experimental demonstration of intensity-invariant nature of recombination defects
in bulk GaAs irradiated by heavy ions

·                     Development of ultra-short, high-power electrical pulsed source for pumping diode lasers
(50 ps 10 kV steps pulses)

 

Senior Researcher (cont.)                                                                                                                     1989 - 1999          

Senior Researcher within the Institute

·                     First demonstration of near 1 µJ picosecond gain-switched optical pulses from a diode laser

·                     Development of thick active layer CW Q-switched diode laser

·                     Investigation of optical detection of the action potential of neuron cells by means
of semiconductor laser illumination

·                     Demonstration of 100 W 160 fs, chirped pulses from a mode-locked semiconductor laser

·                     Development of method to control the optical phase of pulsed semiconductor lasers

·                     First demonstration 1 ps 10 W Q-switch pulses

 

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute                                                                                                                                      

Member of Technical Staff                                                                                                                     1982 - 1989          

Key contributor within the Advanced Physics Laboratory of Zh. I. Alferov, recipient of the
2001 Nobel Prize

·                     Demonstration of self-pulsing picosecond diode lasers via integrated saturable absorbers

·                     Creation of a fast (~ps) saturable absorber by deep implantation of heavy ions
in semiconductor crystal

·                     Investigation of superionic conductivity of RbAg₄I₅ in solid state optics laboratory
of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute leaded by B.P.Zakhartchenia. First demonstration
of ion inertial effect in superionic crystals

 

     Education                                                                                                                                                       

  

   Electrical Engineering University                                                                                         St. Petersburg, Russia

   Master of Science in Physics                                                                                                                       1984         

   Thesis: “Inertial Emf in Superionic Crystal RbAg4I5“

  

   Ioffe Physico-technical Research Institute                                                                           St. Petersburg, Russia

   Ph.D. in Physics                                                                                                                                         1989         

   Thesis: “Sub-picosecond optical pulse generation by semiconductor lasers “

 

 

   Honors and Publications                                                                                                                                             

 

2000                         Blondel’s Medal, Award of European Electrical Engineering Society

1990 – present          Member of Scientific Jury in International Festival of Scoop and Journalism

1988                         Silver Medal (with Zh.I. Alferov and E.L. Portnoi) of VDNCh (All-union industrial exposition)

of USSR, Attestation n° 10416, June

1987                         First prize “Young Specialist of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute”, “Fast and Efficient

saturable absorber”

 

102 publications including, 3 published reviews, 47 articles in international journals, 1 Ph.D. thesis, 5 patents

 36 conference presentations, and 8  invited conferences, Member of European Electrical Engineering Society,

 Member of European Optical Society, Senior Member of IEEE (2002)